Brother is accused robbery motive alleged in Pocahontas
Benjamin Read, brother of Mrs Thra Read Fielding, is jailed without bail awaiting grand jury action after preliminary examination. Fielding, a secluded elderly coal property owner found murdered in her mountain home, led to suspicion of robbery. Read claimed alibi but faces strong circumstantial evidence in a case stirring the community. Special to The Washington Post.
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Waman
Washington Post
Tazewell
Wi i. Havens
Well County
Pocahontas
Benjamin Read
Uthra Read Fielding
Fielding
Pocahontas Collieres Company
Benjamin Xead
Finiss Digster
West Virginia
Anadfie
Hall
Bristol
Histore Tay
New Year Prosperity Promises Washington as National Center
The nation enters the new year with a wave of prosperity and Washington, the capital, is described as the social, political, financial, and diplomatic hub. The text urges readers to invest in properties, buy homes, and consider borrowing money for purchases in the city or district.
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Washington
Mother Blind and Poor and Rich Son Arrested
Special to The Washington Fest reports Owen McDevitt of Hagerstown Md, once a flour mill engineeer, held deranged in St Louis hospital after bonds and papers valued at 50 000 are taken from his pockets. Mrs Mary Matthews claims him as her brother, son of Moges McDevitt who died in the South, with family in Hagerstown.
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Rich Son
Hagerstown
Mary Matthews
James W. Matthews
Owen McDevitt
St. Louis
Burlington Hotel
Matthews
McDevitt
Moges McDevitt
South
Clattanooga
Hugh McDevitt
Virginia Obituary Notices From Weston And Nearby Areas
Virginia obituaries report deaths from weston insane asylum assistant superintendent Dr W 4H MacLsin after two weeks illness. Hubert Rhinehart of Newport News County, about twenty two, after long illness. William A Whitley prominent North Tazewell merchant died after brief illness. Elizabeth Dosh of Woolstock died at twenty two from typhoid fever. Martha J Warlow of Charlotteside age sixty eight died after three months illness. Miss Parrish of Union Mills noted. Teanwird P Hahn died at Newport News General Hospital after typhoid fever. Paul Hahn of Newark New Jersey born 185, married Exina Bunk host in June 198. David W Swisher wealthy farmer of Levels, WV died at eighty three. seven Swisher children listed with spouses in Morgantown, Levels, Tucker County and Frenchs.
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MacLsin
Weston
W Va
Hubert Rhinehart
Newport Tage Unty
Ambrose Rhinehart
Wiliam A. Whitley
North Tazewell
Elizabeth Dosh
Willam L. Dosh
Woolstock
Woodstock
Martha J Warlow
J M Harlow
Charlotteside
Miss Parrish
Union Mills
Fluvanna
Teanwird P Hahn
Newport News General Hospital
Newark
Paul Hahn
Newport News
Exina Bunkhost
Tolumalle
N. J
Jim
David W. Swisher
Levels
W. VI
Augusta County
Newton Swisher
Howard Swisher
Acme Publishing Company
Morgantown
W. Va
John Swisher
Tucker County
Belle Vandevert
W. Vai
George Adams
W. Ve
Herndon Smith
Frenchs
Swisher
Italians Wreck Factory Owner Bound and Gagged
A steamboat with Italians arrived at Huntington and wrecked the Excelsior factory owned by Turley. Turley was bound and gagged, carried to a shanty boat, and later found with cuts and bruises. Fifteen wreckers were jailed as plant guards armed with Winchesters patrolled the site. The attack stemmed from land sale disputes with Guyan Fuel Co. and lease conflicts over a new site and compensation.
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Washington
Huntington
W. Va
Wittenth Street
Ing
Huntington Excelsior
Turley
Willam Turley
Qaia
Guyan Fuel Company
Excelsior Company
Roanoke Shooting: William Booker Shot at Home
Roanoke Virginia December 31 William Henry Booker a stable boss for Virginia Brewing Company was shot through the head while sleeping at his Hoover avenue home. Suspect John Williams Menafee a negra evangelist was arrested. Booker gravely injured, bullet lodged under the eye. Menafees detained, offered no comment. Separate notes record local marriages and other obits.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
William Henry Booker
Virginia Brewing Company
Hoover Avenue
John Wiliams Menafee
Booker
Menafee
Menares
Menafees
Ferrom
Franklin County
Alexandria Welcomes 1906 With Growth and Fire Watch
The Alexandria city year ends with progress in banking and infrastructure. A new union passenger station near the city limits and doubling of tracks by the Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway improve transit. The Worfolk and Washington Steamboat Co adds a ferry steamer. Sewer expansion and water mains reach 3,612 feet. Population rising. deaths steady. Fire losses total 36,230 with major blaze at W. A. Smoot & Co. Police make 179 arrests. building permits total 6,43 with numerous new or repaired structures.
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King Street
Alexandria
Union
Washington, Alexandra and Mount Vernon Railway Company
Washington
Worfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Here
Alexandria Water Company
Alexandria Hospital
Cytmost
W. A. Smoot & Co
Corporation Court
Circuit Cour
Snowstorm Across Virginia Dumps Snow in Several Cities
A Virginia winter weather wave hit Richmond Petersburg and Bristol with heavy snow on December 31. Snow fell for hours in Richmond and Petersburg with large flakes and little accumulation due to wet ground. Bristol reported three inches by 8 a.m. and continued snowfall. The storm threatened more snow that night.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Petersburg
Bristol
Dee
Ben
Welcome for Mrs Gould in Boonsboro purchase for game preserve
Virginia report recounts Mrs Howard Gould buying 1400 acres near Boonsboro for 38000 dollars. She plans a deer and bird stocked game preserve on Blue Ridge slope, fencing, a handsome residence, and cattle farming while preserving much of the land in natural state. She may visit Lynchburg late January to plan improvements.
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Washington Post
Lynchburg
Boonsboro
Howard Gould
New York
Blue Ridge
Gould
S G. Stevens
Southern Farm Agency
Culpeper Fauquier
Loudoun
Henrico
Goochland
TWO TICKETS IN THE FIELD IN THOMAS WEST VIRGINIA
Two municipal tickets appear in Thomas West Virginia with mayoral candidates David Mason and W A Jones. Council members include B A Morgan Samuel Groghan J C Cross and others. A Citizens convention nominating Henry Halbritter for mayor and W M Offutt as recorder is noted with several council contenders.
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West Virginia
Washington Post
Thomas
W. Va
Dee
David Mason
P. H Cornelius
John Cross
B. A. Morgan
George Campbell
Samuel Groghan
William Duscavitch
W. A. Jones
Justice of the Peace
W. E. Cuppett
R. N. McVettie
James O'Conner
John Watson
Alex Close
J. A. Abette Keyser
Citizens’ Convention
Henry Halbritter
W. NM
Offutt
J. H. Vernon
George T. Carsendon
J H. Rine
H. G. Stearts
C T. Mandler
Barges Floated After Coal Cargo Recovered At Norfolk
Special from Norfolk and Cumberland report a Luckenbach Wrecking Co barge Frank Pendleton sunk after collision with Kershaw of Merchants and Miners Line off Lamberts Point. Pendleton later floated with part of its coal cargo recovered. In Maryland a shooting accident injures Adams. another sale changes hands in Roanoke as the Terry Building passes to a bank and the Cramer Building changes ownership. Smallpox aboard a British steamer triggers quarantine at Baltimore.
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Norfolk
H. H Williamson
Luckenbach Wrecking Company
Frank Pendleton
Lamberts Point
Kershaw
Merchants and Miners’ Line
Washington Post
Roanoke
Terry
National Exchange Bank
Louis
Joseph Caloge
Cramer
Russian Peasant Riots in Everybody’s January issue
In Everybody's, January's article on Russia labels the masses as "hungriest" and "most degraded" and details new horrors. The piece discusses riots, the repudiation of country and God, and frames the Russian problem as a global issue for every nation. Everybody's Magazine costs 15 cents per issue or 1.50 a year.
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Russia
Nicholas the
Seco
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